Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 3 March 1866 — Page 1

HEW SERIES—VOL.

BUSINESS CARDS. Real Estate Agency!

V1B flndersifnod will sell or buy Any person haying Farms or To WQI do well to leave them with us.

4 or ft Good Farms. •A Town Lots. AlResidences.

Enquire at the Recorder's Office. (dec83'65.

flD-i KAA MB VEABI We want QD _L VW agents everywhere to sell our improved gao Sewing Machines. Three new kinds. Under and upper feed.'Warranted fire years.— Above salary or larce .commissions paid. The

fatent Medicines, Also, Lamps, Glasswaro, Letter, Cap, and Note Papor, Pens, Pencils, and Ink.

PHEScniPTiojrs Carefully prepared and promptly attended to. We '.'^respectfully solicit patronage from the publio in general. [Jan20 00.

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$

gk IBWIN-, :m:. id. Physician and Surgeon,

Fredericksburg, Montgomery County, lid.

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Will pay special attention to

MSKA8B8 OF A STUBBORN *r »AJf» BBODi CHARACTER. OFFICE hours from 6 to 8 o'clock A. M.. and from 1 1 to 1 0 os el

Fees will fluctuate with the times. ID*Address, Mace Post Office, Montgomery eounty 'laalana. fjan7'6S-ly.

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OINTMENT.,

'A Sure, Safe, and Reliable Cure for

filch, Scratchcs, &c.]

BOLD 33TT

E. J. BINFORD, ..Crawfordsville, Ind..

NO. 26.

Real Estate.— rn Lots for sale

For Sale!

Brick Store Room. 1 Briok Residence, with 19 aore* ground attached, WEBSTER, MAY 4 KEENEY.

ONLY

machines sold in tho United States for less than $40, which are FttLLT BY HoiTK, W A WILSON, GKOVERLIORNBBD, &BAKKK SINO*RA CO.,hEKLKR

ELDER.

AND

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ALL other cheap maohines are

VENTS

and the

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SELLER

or

USER

are

VINE,-ANDIMPRISONMENT.

LIABLE TO JLZ&EBT,

Circulars

FREK.

Address,

if call upon Shf A Clark, Biddeford, Maine. A

MOIVLH

!—AGENTS wanted for

SIX ENTIRELY NEW ARTICLES,

just out.

AcTdress 0. T. GAREY,' City Building, Biddeford, "Maine. dec23'65-8tglwey.

Physician and Surgeon. UK. M. jT~ DORSEY, Respectfully

tenders tais services to the citizens of

Growfordiville and vicinity, in all the branches vf his profession. OPPICKand Bcsidense on Main street, west -of Graham's corner. JunelS'84m3.

NEW FIRM

MOl'Flii & BOOE,

EMPIRE BLOCK, No. 4,

ORAWFORDSVILLE,

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DEALERS IN ri'RS

DRUGS AND MClffi

Paints, Oils, Dyestuffs, 5-.V. Perfumery, Fancy Articles Pure Wine8 and Brandies, a-?f For Medical Purposes.

[feb9'64.

L. I, WIllHOB. Joha W. Ramsay.

CLAIM AGENCY!

WHLSON^T RAMSAY,

"IXTlLLgive special attention to the collection of W .Claims duo discharged soldiers and the wid•ows* and other heirs of deceased soldiers.

Oif PICK—With Samuel C. Willson, ^o.3,"Empire Block, (up stairs) Main street. SeptS'05-y-*-5-l CrnwfordeTllle, Indiana.

». K. DUNKEUSON& CO.,

Forwarding and Commission

MERCHANTS,

SPECIAL

RAIL ROAD AND STEAMBOAT AGENTS AND Proprietors of Mammoth Wharf Boat

New Albany, Indiana.

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E. J. BINFORD, TJ GG 1ST

£1? AT THE OLD STAND OF RENBY OTT. 5 1 West Side of Court House Square,

ORAWFORDSVILLE, INDIANA.

JLEfe & BROTHER'S NEW GROCERY STORE

iSf npHTS

establishment is now,stocked with a large asA sortraontnf plain and f(moy Groceries: whioh will be soldfor cttnh orprodueo'. Farmers of Montgomery eounty pall in and examine our stook before purohafr Jng elsewhere. [DeeS'M^f. ===a

AXES.

Pension, Bottnly, Back Pay,

Commutatibni of Rations for Soldiers who have been Prisoners of War and Prize Money also, Claims for Horses and

Other Property lost in the Service, and in fact every species of Claims Against the Government Collected with Promptness and Dispatch by

W. J\ BRITTOJY,

To Discharged Soldiers: 1st. When a soldier is discharged by reason of the expiration of his term of service, he is entitled to all arrears of pay and tho balance of the bounty promised to him after deducting the installments paid. 2d. Soldiers discharged for wounds received in

LINE OP DUTY

are entitled to a

dition

IND.

REAL ESTATE AGENTS.

"\XTILL ATTEND to business in tho Circuit and II Common Pleas Courts in this and adjoiniag counties.. Will give prompt attention to the settlement of Estatos, collection of Pensions and Soldiers' Claims.

Iluy and soli oil commission. Houses and Lots. Vacant Lots, Farms, Farming Land in alt tho Western State* and Territories.

Loans negotiated, collections made. Land entered, Tazes paid and Titles examined in all the Western States.

Have for sale a large numbor of desirable dwellings in thisoity, also, a large number of vacant Lots, at very reasonable terms.

Have also a large number of Farms in this and adjoining counties for sale, also 13,000 acres of Western Land, partially improved.

After property is plaoed in our bands (or sale, should the owner through our introduction, or by means of publicity given by us, sell the property at the fixed price, or for more or less, th6 commission must, in all cases, be paid to us.

ILfOffice over Brown's Drug Store, Vernon street, Crawfordsville,

REFERENCESInd*

CRAWTOEDSVILBE,

Attorney,

AN&

GOVERNMENTCLAIM AGENT.

B3f-0ffi.ce in Washington JIall Building, over Simpson's Grocery Store, Crawfordsville.

Under the present Laws, Soldiers and Soldiert Heirs are entitled as follows: 1st. When a soldier has died from any cause in the sendee of the Unitted States, sinoe tho 13th of April 1801. leaving a widow, she is entitled to a pension of $8 per month also a bounty of from $75 to $403, besides all arrears of pay. 9d If the soldier left no widow, his children under IS years of age are entitled to the pension, back pay. and bounty. 3d. If the soldier left no widow, child or children, then the father is entitled to the bounty and back pay. but no pension. 4th. If the soldierleft no widow, child or father, or if the father has abandoned the support of the family, the mother is entitled to the back pay and bounty, and, if she was dependent in whole or in part on her son for support, to a pension also* 5th. If the soldier left nono of the above heirs, then the brothers and sistorsaro entitled to the back pay and bounty. s8§i§

BOUNTY.

3d. Soldiers discharged by reason of disease contracted in the service, or wounds received, which still disable them, are entitled to a

Pees Reasoaable

PENSION

TO THE ABOVE.

in ad­

ICPBy a late act of Congress every soldier who shall have lost both hands, or both feel or who shall havo lost one hand and one foot in tbe service, shall be entitled to a pension of $30 per month.

Officers returns to Chief cf Ordnance, Surgeon General and Quarter-Master General made up. and nf Non-IndAuam... i.

AND BO

Charge la Aajr Case Unless

Sueemful. VST Special attention given also to the settlement of Decedents' Estates, and other Legal business. ulyS'GS. W. r. BRITTUN.

W. SArrENFIELD.

E. M. SAFFENFIELD.

SAPPENFIELD & BRO., Attorneys at Law

AND

:—MoDonald A Roach, Indianapolis

Smith & Mack. Attorneys, Terre Haute Patterson & Allen, do Hon. I. N. ricree do: Judgo S. F. Maxwell, Rockville ffm. Durham, President First National Hank of Crawfordsville: Campbell, Walker and Cooley. Professors of Law, Michigan University, Ann Arbor. Mich. [janO '60-yl.

FOR SALE.

Two story frame house with 6 rooms, cistern, cellar.'orchard.'and out buildings, with 5 acres of land mile west of College.

House and lot on Market street, good- well, cistern, cellar, and an excellent selection of growing fruit. Terms easy.

House and lot on corner of Wub!n«t«a and Pike streets. 2 stories. 9 rooms, 2 balls, well, cistern, and cellar, growing fruit, and good out buildings, will sell in 3 parcels, suitable for purchasers, lot 82X by 165. Terms easy.

House and lot on Washington street, near college, rooms, good cistern, cellar, stable, and growing fruit. Lot83i by 165. Terms easy.

House and lot on Walnut streot, near College. 9 rooms, ^ood cistern, cellar, stable, and fine selection of growing fruit. Lot 82£ by 165. For terms apply.

House and lot of 6 acros in south part of city, 34 rods on pike road, 40 rods back. 100 good fruit trees, out buildwood house selection of small fraits, grapos, Ac., and a fine collection of ornamental trees. Price $4,000 in payments.

barn^4 by 36. wgll, cistern, oellar, ana goo ings, house 3 stories high, 0 rooms, with underioof of same building, good select!

Out lot No. 4, in Samuel Thompson's addition. House and lot. No. 6S, on Washington street, north of Court House, 5 rooms, good cistern, collar, and other out buildings. Price $1300, in payments.

Farmi of 195' acres, 60 acres cleared bottom land, good saw and grist mills, saw mill cut 5000 feet por day, two run of stones, building 4 stories high, timber enough on premises to run saw mill 5 years, good orohard. barn, and comfortable house, with gooa out buildings, good spring, and ooal bank on farm, 8 miles east of Ttockviile, Parke county, lnd. Terms in rea' sonable payments,-

Farm IBO^acres, 2 miles west of Crawfordsville. Terms $75 per acre. Farm 271 acres, near Brownsville, Montgomery county. Ind. Farm $45 per acre in payments

Farm 169 acres north of Crawfordsville $45 per acre, in reasonable payments. Farm 110 acres 1 mile west of Yountsvllle. in good repair, good bouse, barn, Ac. Terms $75 per acre.

Farm 93 acres in Parke eounty, Ind 6 miles east Rockville. Terms reasonable,

Farm 80 acres in miles south of Waveland, Ind., 2 houses and 2 orchards, with all necessary out buildings, Price$75 per acre, ii, payments.

Farm 91 acres. 6 miles east of Rockville, Ind,, good house, barn, orohard, and out buildings. Cheap at $75 per acre.

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Have also for sale 500 acres in Pago county, Iowa. Will exohange for town property in a flourishing town or city. 200 acres in Coffy county, Kansas. Entered 6 years ago. Price $1,50 per acre. 60 acres in Dickinson county. Iowa $1,10 per acre, 500 acres in Missouri at $1,00 per acre.

Also a large number of farmsin this and adjoining States. For particulars apply. Western land constantly on band, for sale or exchange.

Also for sale 3K acres west of the Odd Fellows' Cemetery. Parties wishing to make quick sales of their jproi erty will do well ny sonding us a desoriptiou or their property. Wahava made .arrangements with Real Estate Atccncies in most of the Western States and are prepared to make transfers at a small expense. janWW. SAPPENFIELD ABBOTHEH.

FOR THELABIES Celebrated Pearl Drops

TjiOR b'eaulifryjng't'he eompUxfoli SklldVurlBg dii J? easescf thosliid. For saleoUlJ#Wr1 .t T-*'

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B, J. BINFORD,

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DEMOCRATIC AT ALL TIMES AKD-UNDER ALL CIRCUMSTANCES.

GREAT SPEECH

op

PRESIDENT JOHNSON.

He Pronounces the Radical Leaders Traitors!

FELLOW CITIZENS, for I presymo, I have a right to address you as such: I come to tender to you my sincere thanks for the approbation expressed by your committee in their personal addresses, and in the resolutions submitted&y them as haviug been adopted by the. meeun? which has, been l&ld in this city to-day.""

These resolution, as I understand thenfe are complimentary to the policy which has been adopted by the Administration, and has been steadily pursued since it came into power. I am fVee to say to you on this occasion that it is extremely gratifying to me to know th$t so large a portion of my fellow citizens approve and indorse the policy which has been adopted, and which it is my intention shall be carried out. [Great applause.] That policy is one which is intended to restore all the States to their original relations to the Federal Government of the United States. [Renewed applause.] This seems to be a day peculiarly appropriate for such a manifestation it is the day that gave birth to that man-who, more perhaps than any other, founded this Government it is the day that gave birth to the Father of our Country it is the day that gave birth to him who presided over that body which formed the Constitution under which all the States entered into this glorious confederacy. Such a das r~ culiarly opp»«/jpr»atc for tiic indorsement of a policy whose object is the restoration of the Union of the States as it was designed by the Father of his Country. [Applause.] Washington, whose name this city bears, is embalmed in the hearts of all who love free government. Washington, in the language of his eulogist^ was first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen. No people can claim him. No nation can appropriate him. His reputation is commensurate with the civilized world, and his name is the common property of all those who love free government. To-day, had I the" pleasure of visiting an association who have been devoting their efforts to the completion of the monument which is being erected to his name. I was proud to meet them, and, so far as I could, to give them my influence and countenance in aid of the work they have undertaken. That monument which is being erected to him who, I may say, founded the Government, is almost within the throw of a stone of the spot irom which I address you. Let it be completed. [Applause.] Let those various blocks which the States and individuals, and associations, and corporations have put in that monument, as pledges of their love for this Union, be preserved and let the work be accomplished. In this connection let me refer to the block from my own State—God bless her—[applause]—which has struggled for the preservation of this Union in the field and in the councils of the nation, and which is. now struggling to re­

her relation with this Government that were interrupted by a fearful rebellion. She is now struggling to renew those relations, and^gto take her stand where she had ever stood since 1796, until this rebellion broke out. [Great applause.] Let me repeat tbe sentiment that that State has inscribed upon the stone which she has deposited in that monument of freedom which is being raised in commemoration of Washington. She is struggling to get back into the Union, and to stand by the sentiment which is there inscribed, and she is willing to sustain it. What is it? It is the sentiment which was enunciated by. her distinguished son, theft imufortal, illustrious Jackson: "'The Federal Union it must be preserved." [Great applause.] If it were possible for that old man, whose statue is now before me, and whose portrait is beside me in the Executive Mansionji^and whose seniiment is thus preserved in that monument in your vicinity, to be called forth from the grave or if it were possible to communicate with the spirit of ihe illustrious dead and make him understand the progress of faction and of rebellion and treason, he would turn over in his coffin, and he would rise, and shaking off the habiliments of the

forth his long arm and. finger and reiterate that sentiment once expressed by him on a memorable occasion: "The Fecjgral Union:.it must»be preserved," [Great 5.1- We have witnessed what has transpired since hiB day, in 1833. When treason and treachery and infidelity to the Government and the Constitution of the United States stalked forth in the land, it was his power and influence that crushed th« serpent in its -incipiency. It was, then stopped, but only for a, time. The same Spirit of disaffection continued There were men disaffected to the Govern* ment both in the North and in the SoUth. There was, in a portion"'of the Union, a peculiar institution^ of.whioh some com plained, and to which others trere attach ed. One portion of our cduntir^ttfeta .lil the South__Adyo.caiejL.&al institution, whUe anothar portion in the North oppos ed it. -The result was th6' formation of extreme parties—one especially in the "It

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South, which reached a point at which it Was proposed to dissolve the Union of the States, for the purpose, as was said, of securing and preserving that peculiar institution. There was another portion of ottr countrymen who wertf oppose to that institution, add who went to such an extreme that they were'willing to break up the Government, in order to get clear of that peculiar institution of the South. I say these things because I desire to talk lainly and in faifiiliar phraseology. I jwnie nothing here to-day beyond the position of a citizen, one who has been pleading for his country and the preservation' pf the Constitution. [Immense cheering.] These two parties, I say. were arrayed against each other, and 1 stand here before you for the Union toas I stood in the Senate of the United States in 1860 and 1861. I met there those who were making war upon the Constitution, those who wanted to disrupt the Government, and I denounced them in my place, then and there, and exposed their true character. I said that those who were engaged in the work of breaking up the Government were traitors. I have never ceased, on all proper occasions, to repeat that sentiment, and so far as my efforts could go, I have endeavored to carry it out. [Great applause.] I have just remarked that there were two parties, one of which was for destroying the Government and separating the Union, in order to preserve slavery, and the other for breaking up the Government in order to destroy slavery. True, the objects which they sought to accomplish were different, so far as slavery was concerned, but they agreed in the desire to break up the Government—the precise thing: to have nWoj- *jct'u opposed and whether aisuniohisls come from the South or the North, I stand now as I did then, vindicating the Union of these States and the Constitution of my country. [Tremendous applause.] When rebellion and treason manifested themselves in the'South, I stood by the Government, I said then, that I was for the Union with slavery, I was for the Union without slavery in either alternative, I was for my Government and its Constitution. The Government has stretched forth its 'strong arm, and with its physical power it has put down treason in the field. The section of the country which then arrayed itself against the Government has been put down by -the strong arm. What did we say when this treason originated? We said, "$o compromise. 'You. yourselves in the South can settle this question in eight and forty hours." I said, again and again, and I repeat it now, "Disband your armies in the South, acknowledge the supremacy of the Constitution of the United States, acknowledge the duty of obedience to the laws, and the whole question is settled." [Applause.^] What has been done since? Their armies have been disbanded, and they come forward now in a proper spirit, and say, "We were mistaken. We made an effort to carry out the doctrine of secession, and to dissolve this Union. In that we have failed. We have traced this doctrine to its logical and physical results and we find that we were mistaken. We acknowledge the flag of our country and are willing to obey the Constitution, and to yield to the supremacy of the laws." [Great applause.] Coming in that spirit I say to them, when you have complied with the requirements of the Constitution, when you have yielded to the law, when you have acknowledged your allegiance to the Constitution, I will, so far as I can, open the door of the Union to those who have erred and strayed from the fold of their fathers for a time. [Great applause.]

Who suffered more oy the rebellion than I have? I shall not repeat the story of the wrongs and sufferings inflicted upon me.

The spirit of revenge is riot the spirit in which to deal with a whole people. I know there has been a great .deal said about the exercise of the pardoning power. So far as your Executive is concerned, there is no one who has labored with more earnestness than myself to have the principal, intelligent and conscious traitors brought to justice, the law vindicated, and the great fact judicicfusly established that treason is a crime. [Applause] But while conscious, leading and intelligent traitors are to be punished, should whole communit&s and States and peoples b% made to jwf)mit tj|£the penalty of death? ["No,

I have perhaps as much asperity and

tomb would again stand erect, and extend I as much resentment as'men ought to ha^e, 'but we must reason in ..great matters of government about man as he is. We must conform our actions and our conduct to the example of Him who founded our religion. Not that I would make such a comparison on this occasion, in any per sonal respect. I came into this place^jnder the Constitution of my country, and by ''the approbation of the people, and what did I find? I found eight millions of people who were, in fact, condemned under thejaw, and the penalty was death.

Was I to yield to the spirit of revenge and i^sentment,' und declare that they should all be.annihilated and destroyed? How different would this have been from the example -set'ljy tH8 holy Founder of our religion, the extremes of whose divine ,.WcE rests, upon tliiJTiorizon, «nd' whose span embracf^ithe universe He wfyo. founded this great.

P2)teme came intoj

the world and found man eoifteoipeif W der the lav, and his sent«rr6© was death

what was his example? Instead of putting the world or even tt nation to death, he died unOtf the cross, attesting by his wounds and his blood that he difcd that mankind might live. [Great applause.] Let those who have erreewfepent let them acknowledge their allegiance let them become loyal, willing supporters and defenders of our glorious stripe# and starts, and of the Constitution of our country. Let the leaders, the conscious, intelligent traitors, be punished, and be subjected to the penalties of the law. [Applause.] But to the great mass who have been forced into this rebellion in many instances, and in others, have been misled, I say leniency, kindness, trust and confidence. [Great applause.]

My countrymen, when I look back over the history of tho rebellion, I am not vain when I a^k you if I have not given as much evidence of my devotion to th'e Union as some who croak a great deal about it? Whcg I look back over the battle fields of the rebellion, I think of the many brave men in whose company I was. I cannot but recollect that I was sometimes in places where the contest was most difficult and the result most doubtful. But almost before the smoke has passed away, almost before the blood that has been shed has done reeking, before the bodies of the slain have passed thro1 the stages of decomposition, what do we now find? Tho rebellion has been put

down by the strong arm of the Govern rnent in the field but is that the only way in which you can have rebellion? Our struggle was against an attempt to dissever the Union but almost before the smoke of

thebnt.tU fiold

lias passed away,

oefore our brave men have returned to their homes and renewed the ties of affection and love to their wives and their children, we find almost another rebellion inaugurated. We put down the former rebellion in order to prevent the separation of the States, to prevrtit them from flying off, and thereby changing the character of our Government, and weakening its power but when that struggle on our part has been successful, and that attempt has been put down, we find now an effort to concentrate all power in the hands of a few at the Federal head, and thereby bring about a consolidation of the Government which is equally objectionable with a separation. [Vociferous applause.]

Wc findxthat powers are assumed and attempted to be exercised of a most extraordinary character. It seeing that governments may be revolutionized, governments at least may be changed, without going through the strife of battle.

I believe it is a fact, attested in history, that sometimes revolutions most disastrous to the people arc effected without the shedding of blood. The'substance of your Government may be taken away, while the form and the shadow remain to you. What is now being proposed? We find that in point of fact nearly all the powers of the Government are assumed by an irresponsible Central Directory, which does not even consult the legislative or executive department of the Government. By resolutions reported from a committee, in whom it seems that, practically, the legislative power of the Government is now vested, that great principle of the Constitution, which authorizes and empowers each branch of the legislative department of the Senate and the House of Representatives to judge for itself of the election, returns and qualifications of its own members, has been virtually taken away from the two branches of the legislative department of the Government, and conferred upon a committee who must report before either house can act under the Constitution'^ to accepting the members who are to take their seats as component parts of the respective bodies. By this rule it is assumed that there must be laws passed recognizing a State as in the Union, or its practical relations to the Union as rcstotted, before the respective Houses under the Constitution can judge of the elcntinn, returns and qualifications of their own members. What a position is that! You struggled for four years to put down a rebellion. You denied in the beginning «of the struggle that any State could go out of the Union. You said that it had neither the right nor the power to do so.

The issue was made, and it has been settled that the States had neither the right nor the power to go but of the Union. With .whafiepnsistency, after it has been settled by Tne military* arm of the Government and by the public judgment that the States had no right to go out of the Union, can any one now turn round and assume that they are out, that they shall not come in? I am free to say to you, as your Executive, that I am not prepared to take any such position. [Great applause.] I said in the Senate, in the very inception of this rebellion, that the

States had no right to go out. I asserted, too,'that they had no power to go out. That question has/been settled, and it being Bettled, I cannot turn around now and give, the,lie direct to all'that I have professed und: all I have done for the past five years. [Applause.] Even those who rebelled comply with the Constitution when they give suffioient evidence of loyalty. When they show that they can be trusted, when they yield obedience to the law th^t you and I acknowledge obedience

ito,.I

say extend to them tho right

hapd of fellowship, and let peace and union be festered. [Tremendous applause.] fought traitors and treason in the

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South. I opposed the Davises. the Tombs, the Slidells, and a long list of others which you can readily fill without my repeating names.

Now, when I turn round, and at the other end of the line find men, I care not by what name you call them, who still stand opposed to the restoration of the Union of these States, I am free to say to you that I am still in the field. [Great applauso.] Iam still in favor of this great Government of ours going on and filling out its destiny. [Great applause. Voices, "Give'three names at the other end." The President was called on to name three at the other end of the line/} I am talking with iofy friends and fellowcitizen^ who are interested with me in this Government, and I presume I am free to mention to you the names of those whom I look upon as being opposed to the fundamental principles of tnis Government, and who are laboring to pervert and destroy it.

Voices—"Name them. Who are they?" The President—You ask me who they are. I say Thaddeu^ Stevens of Pennsylvania is on§, I say,.Mr..St»mner of the Senate is another, and ."Wendell Phillips is another. [Long continued applause.]

Voices—"Give it to Forney." The President—In reply to that, I..^il( simply say I do not waste my ammunition upon dead ducks. [Great laughter and applause.] I stand for my icountry,

I

stand for the Constitution. There havo placcd my feet from my advent into public life. They may traduce, fliey' tn'ay jj slander, or they may vituperate me, but let me say to you all, this has no influence upon me. [Loud applause.] Letmesaj^: further that I do not intend to. be overawed by real or pretended friends, nor do I mean to be bullied by my enemies. [Tremendous applause.] Honest conviction is my courage, the Constitution is +iit I J. my guide.

I know, my countrymen, that it i'aa been insinuated—no, not insinuated,: it has been said directly, in high circles, that if such a usurpation of power as I am charged with had been exercised some two hundred years ago, in a .particular reign, it would have cost an individual hia head. [Great laughter.] Of wrhat usurpation has Andrew Johnson been guilty? ["None, none."] Is it a usurpation that stand between the people^jjjpji the encroachments of power? I^ec&use, in,l a. conversation with a fellow-citizen whol happened to be a Senator, 1 Baid tbet I' thought amendments to the. Constitution ought not to be so frequent,-^that if it was eternally tinkered with it would have lost all its prestige and dignity thatijie £& old instrument wo\ild be lost sight of &1together in a short time? Because, in the same conversation, I happened to say if it were amended at all, or such and such an amendment ought not to bo adopted, it was charged that I was guilty jpFi a usurpation of a power that would cost a „tf king his head in a certain period of Eng-* lish history. [Great laughter.] From* the same source the exclamation has gone'*^ forth that they were in the midst of eajgjth-^. qu'akes that they were trembling aAtf could not yield. [Laughter.1 Yes, fel-low-citizens, there is an earthquake coming there is a grand swelling of popular judgment and indignation. [Great applause. The American people will spealc, and by their instinct, if not otherwise, they will know who are their enemies.

I

have endeavored to be true to^he people in all the positions which I have occupi^: this. Government which I have* not at some

cd, and there is hardly a position in, have not at time filled. I suppose it will be said that this is vanity [laughter], but I may say that I have been in all of them. I have' been in both branches of the State legislature.

A voice—You commenced a tailor. The President—A gentleman behind' me says I began a tailor. Yes, I'did bpgin as a tailor [applause], and that suggestion does not discomfit me in tWleast, for when I was a tailor, I lllid. th^'teputaiion of being a gWd one and of making close fits [laughter}, and I was always punctual to my customers, and did good work. [Applause.]

Voices—Wc will patch upvthe Union" yet. The President—No, I do not want any patch-work of it I want original articles restored. [Great applause.] .^But enough of this facetiousness. I know it may said, "You are President and you ,mu3t not talk about these things but, my fel-low-citizens, I intend to talk the truth, and when principle is involved, when the existence of my country is in peril I hold it to be my duty to speak what I think, and what I feel, as I. have always done on former occasions. [Great applause.] 1 have said that it has been declared elsewhere that I wa3 guilty of usurpation which would have cost a king his head, and in another place I have been denounced for whitewashing. When and where did I ever whitewash anything or anybody? I have been an Alderman -of.a town I have been in both branches jdf the Legislature of my State I have been in both houses pf the National Congress

I have been at the head of the Executive Department 6f my State I haVe" been Vice President'of the United States an$ I am now in the position -which I .pccupy before you and during all this bareer, where is the man, and what portion-of the people is there, who can say that

Andrew

Johnson ever made a pledge Iwhioh he did not redeem, or that- h(i'ever: madd a promise which he violated. ["None,